Using Blockchain For Good

BY:MELISSA HENDERSON

Here are Four alternatives ways of making the world a safer place for our communities:

1. We can use the concept of blockchain to guard our communities and hold each other accountable.

2. We need to eliminate racism with mandatory social justice classes for all law enforcers, with a focus on building emotional intelligence.

3. We can identify bad apples using facial recognition technology.

4. We need to demilitarize and de-fund the current state-level police forces that have horrible “benefits”, like banking in settlement fees for their racist acts of terror towards the citizens they are supposed to be protecting and serving in the first place.

Insights: According to the Urban Institute, “In 2017, state and local governments spent $115 billion on police (4 percent of state and local direct general expenditures) and $79 billion on corrections (3 percent).” We must re-allocate budgets on the micro-level, within states, to materialize our demands of defunding the police.

1. WE CAN USE THE CONCEPT OF BLOCKCHAIN TO GUARD OUR COMMUNITIES AND HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE.

- Problem: Over 400,000 children go missing in the US every year.

- Solution: We can use the concept and platform of blockchain to protect and preserve our communities while keeping track of children when they go missing. - Here’s how: This is the platform behind the recordkeeping technology, infamous for making Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies wildly successful. These “blocks” store information submitted in public databases. Anyone should be able to submit to these blocks with a custom hashcode that is checked and balanced within the system, using the same integrations as the way bitcoin functions. “Much like you and I have names to distinguish us from one another, each block stores a unique code called a “hash” that allows us to tell it apart from every other block.” One block can store over an MB of information, so just think about how we can all come together to watch out for each other. - 1 blockchain = 1 community.

ABOUT BLOCKCHAIN

More: Blocks are legitimized by the amount of information the public submits to these blocks. In order to submit to your neighborhood blocks, you have to live in the neighborhood and have proof of residency. This is how your block is verified – by both address and by the amount of information you submit to the block

We can use “up voting” to determine whether theinformation you submit is actually real. Block leaders will be defined by the community, but alsoby how much this person has contributed to the community via submitting truthful information that helps keep the neighborhood safe and other members of the DAO verifying every transaction.

2. WE CAN IDENTIFY MISSING CHILDREN WITH FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY

- Problem: Too many children are stuck in broken systems that do not have the infrastructure to keep track of them. They may be trafficked across borders, where the law officers can’t even communicate with those missing.We’ve seen this happen with border control. - Solution: Any A.I or tech company who can provide facial recognition technology - Once someone identifies a hate crime and gets it on camera, we can use the video to find out the contact info of these police officers killing and violating the rights of black and brown people. - There are TONS of companies with A.I. technology and capabilities to help digitize and build databases that reflect the needs of the black and brown communities. For example, TRU FACE recently joined forces with the Caribbean to launch a missing person database and interactive platform leveraging the power of facial recognition in the wake of Hurricane Dorian. Link: https://www.findmebahamas.com/

3. DECREASE AI-BIASED WITH FUNDING AND USING MORE TECH MADE WITH DIVERSE INTENTIONS

Problem: Deep-rooted racism has infiltrated our communities and held us back from progressing as a culture.

Solution: Provide mandatory social justice and cultural classes for all individuals policing our communities and law enforcers. To rise above racism means to better our minds.